They also sometimes own businesses
Ah yeah. The kind of people who already had money to start a business in the first place.
If you can carve a couple nights a week, you can work in local gov.
That seems like not nearly enough time to be putting into something that is meant to change how things work. Government is incredibly slow though, I’m aware…
None of this is making them sound… well better.
Most people start a business via a small business loan, which is surprisingly easy (in my view) to qualify for. You also only need like $50 in my state to register as a business owner.
Lots of relatively poor people own their own business. I ran my own consultancy for a while and I was definitely not rich.
Couple nights a week is plenty when you’re on city council for a town of 10,000 people. There aren’t that many hearings
Most people start a business via a small business loan, which is surprisingly easy (in my view) to qualify for. You also only need like $50 in my state to register as a business owner.
Now this is really wild to me. If I walked into a place and tried to get a business loan, I guarantee they’d say no to me REAL quick.
I don’t think only rich people own businesses but I think people who are able to be in a place financially where they can get a loan to start a business, are probably better off financially than say, some no body like myself.
There aren’t that many hearings
Jesus… is that based on locality or? That almost sounds like no one is really doing anything. What do they actually do?
Also I want to add, I have thought about getting into politics and the reason I don’t is the reasoning behind these questions. I can’t imagine having a job and doing this but really only doing it like politics are my hobby and hearings are my little meet ups.
It’s definitely by locality, but keep in mind that basically as a matter of course there will always be a shitload more small localities than large. Thus, most politicians aren’t paid much. Lots of localities have city councils that yeah, are basically meetups. They’ll literally meet in kitchens and shit. I had an embarrassing moment at a state rep dinner at my aunt’s house where I didn’t silence my phone and my ringtone was hilariously inappropriate. Politics can be extremely local, and I think that’s a good thing, even if I personally think it does fuck up a lot of small towns
The numbers can be a touch misleading, since there are a large number of larger towns and cities that do have paid representatives, because the country is absolutely enormous and there are “major” cities everywhere. There are a lot more politicians than you’d think if you really get granular.
Also the key aspects of a business loan are
1: some form of collateral
2: a solid business plan
You bring those things and you can probably start a business.
